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OACOMA - One of the goals of the Rounds administration for Indian education is integrating knowledge of Lakota, Dakota and Nakota culture into South Dakota's standards for public schools. Judging from the turnout Monday morning at the state Indian education summit for one such session, interest is high. Every one of the 90 chairs was filled by educators, and more than one dozen other people crowded through the door to stand along the walls, for a one-hour presentation by LaRayne Woster, a dynamic member of the St. Joseph's Indian School faculty at Chamberlain.

RAPID CITY - It doesn't get much better than the Lakota Nation Invitational. The 33rd event wrapped up on Saturday at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City. I always attended the LNI when I was younger and this year I was fortunate to cover this outstanding event, which brings a lot of people to Rapid City for four days in December. I have covered state basketball tournaments before. I truly believe that state tournaments pale in comparison to the LNI. The event does have a state-tournament feel and the atmosphere is electric, but it is just on a whole other level.

RAPID CITY - Canku One Star is a movie star. OK, so he is not a movie star. It was too hard to pass up a lead like that. The Todd County boys' basketball player did play a role in the Native American film ?Skins.? The movie was filmed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. One Star was in the second grade when the movie was filmed. One Star's mother knew someone that was a part of the crew. One Star and his cousins found out that they were casting for the movie. They auditioned. One Star won the role of young Rudy Yellow Lodge.

It began as an eight-team boys' basketball tournament in Pine Ridge. It has evolved into the biggest tournament in South Dakota - and one of the biggest in the nation. The 33rd annual Lakota Nation Invitational starts today in Rapid City and concludes on Saturday. The annual event has everything from hand games, knowledge bowls, storytelling competitions, Lakota language bowls, wrestling, art shows and much more. It has skyrocketed to become a Native American showcase with boys and girls as the shining stars.

LAKOTA, N.D. (AP) ? Authorities are searching for the driver of a white semi-tractor who they say failed to yield and caused an accident on U.S. Highway 2 that sent four people to the hospital. The Highway Patrol says the semi, which was not hauling a trailer, kept going after the Sunday afternoon crash near Lakota that involved two vans that both ended up in the ditch. Two people from Minot and two from St. Thomas were taken to a Devils Lake hospital. The patrol says only one of them appeared to have serious injuries.

Cheyenne Eagle Butte School will close Friday for the funeral service of Sgt. 1st Class Arthur Francis "Bluie" Jewett, a school representative said. The South Dakota war hero and Lakota warrior died during the Korean War almost 60 years ago. The rural Eagle Butte man's remains were retrieved from a mass grave near the Chosin Reservoir in northeast North Korea in 2002 and were identified by the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command earlier this year. Jewett's funeral service will be 10 a.m. in the high school gym. Rosary and wake are at 7 p.m. Thursday at All Saints Catholic Church.

Monday marked the first time Aberdeen participated in the annual United Nations International Day of Peace, which was founded in 1981. It might not be the last. ?This is a special night. We hope this is just the beginning,? Lance Smith of Aberdeen told a crowd of about 100 at the Native American Cultural Center and Museum for the local Interfaith Gathering for Peace. Smith, the center/museum director, was one of the organizers of the local gathering. Interfaith and intercultural it was. Four languages were heard during the hour-long session of music, dancing and readings: English, Hebrew, Lakota and Spanish.

A counselor and 10 students from a Barrington, Ill., high school will come to Aberdeen this weekend for the South Dakota Film Festival. It's not the first time they've been in South Dakota. Ray Piagentini, the counselor, has been taking students from the school to the Crow Creek Indian Reservation for the last 10 years. This summer, Piagentini took 45 students with him. The students spend seven or eight days at the reservation. It is part of a Lakota outreach course the school offers. Rob Weidner, a senior at the school, has produced a 10-minute documentary about the students' experience at Crow Creek.